Connecting Clinics, Campuses and Communities to Improve Health
From an office in Hibbard Hall on the UW-Eau Claire campus, neuroscience major Samantha Thompson works the phones, looking for resources across central and northern Wisconsin that can help keep people healthy.
Promoting Food Sovereignty Among Indigenous Communities
The Oneida Nation is developing a model of programming that promotes traditional food ways, agriculture, and cultural identity among Indigenous communities as a comprehensive approach to reducing health disparities and improving health and health care.
Advancing School-Based Mental Health Care
Advancing School-Based Mental Health in Dane County is a five-year $1 million Community Impact Grant award to the Madison Metropolitan School District that will develop an innovative model to provide care that's easily accessible to students.
Improving Health by Addressing Housing Instability
A grant to Sixteenth Street Community Health Center, Milwaukee’s largest federally qualified health center, supports the organization’s work to build a strong foundation of community health by addressing housing instability in its community.
Improving Care for Wisconsin Seniors
The Improving Assisted Living through Collaborative Systems Change project is expanding and enhancing access to the Wisconsin Coalition for Collaborative Excellence in Assisted Living, or WCCEAL, an established and test quality improvement infrastructure.
Addressing Wisconsin’s Opioid Problem
A pair of Wisconsin Partnership Program grants to the Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program and WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network are helping to raise awareness of opioid addition and laying a groundwork for community-based treatment and recovery programs.
Improving Dementia Care and Treatment for the Latino Community
United Community Center is using a Community Impact Grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to develop the Latino Dementia Heath Regional Consortium.
Strengthening Social Connection to Reduce Health Inequities
Nehemiah Center's initiative, supported by the Wisconsin Partnership Program, focuses on reducing health disparities among Black people by addressing the health impacts of racism.